The 2023 Spring Meeting will again host a variety of ULI Forums. We hope you join us this Spring, in Toronto, for these learning and networking sessions comprised of small groups of professionals from different real estate backgrounds. You will find the full schedule for all of the ULI Forums below. Capacity is limited, so stay tuned for registration information.

Please note the following requirements for participating in ULI Forums:

• Be a Full Member of ULI. (Not a Member? Join us!)
• Register for the Spring Meeting. You can sign up for Forums from within the Spring Meeting registration system. (Need to Register? Register here!)
• An additional fee applies (varies by Forum).

2023 ULI Spring Meeting – Toronto: ULI Forums Schedule

Tuesday, May 16, 8:00 am-11:30 am

• Randall Lewis/Building Healthy Place Forum
  • The sixteenth in the series of Building Healthy Places Forums will be held in conjunction with ULI’s Spring Meeting in Toronto. The forum, generously supported by ULI Foundation Governor Randall Lewis, will bring together leaders in health, wellness, and real estate to discuss what they are doing, planning, and observing in the field. The forum will be a content-heavy, interactive discussion and exchange.The forum is being organized in collaboration with ULI member leaders and will focus on sharing information about Toronto-based projects at the intersection of health and the built environment and applying lessons from these projects to the work of forum participants. Please note that this forum will begin at 8:00 am
• ULI Infrastructure Forum
  •  Implementing 15-minute Communities: How Leaders can Align Smart Infrastructure and Land Use Decisions with Real Estate Investments  The Infrastructure Forum brings together global leaders in infrastructure, land use, real estate, capital market, finance, economics, investment, legal, property management, market analysis, strategy management, sustainability, planning, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, transportation, engineering and other professionals from public, private and non-profit sectors to examine the most pressing infrastructure, land use and real estate decisions of the 21st century. Background 

    The Americas is the largest contributor to the global carbon footprint, where 1/3 is due to urban footprint, 1/3 is due to buildings, and 1/3 is due to industrial agriculture.  Within metro regions, community needs, multi-generational values, and capital allocation are changing. Flooding, drought, urban heatwave, food insecurity, and energy consumption have added pressure on communities. Transit investment, when not integrated with land use and real estate decisions, did not translate to reducing auto-dependency and VMT. Achieving 50 percent carbon reduction by 2030 requires real estate and land use professionals to reshape our world into people-centric walkable communities led by decarbonization and equitable public realm, regenerate our land and assets into carbon sinks, and humanize metro regions into 15-min communities.  

    With a focus on implementation, the Forum will include a research presentation covering scalable prototypes in 6 geographies, a case study panel, and a leadership strategy workshop to explore how to engage/market, finance/fund, design/construct, operate/maintain infrastructure and real estate assets to extend economic life and performance, covering ‘one environment’, ‘one community’, ‘one energy’, ‘one mobility’ and ‘one vision’ infrastructure to transform communities around the globe.

    Please note that this forum will begin at 8:00 am. For more information and the forum agenda, please click HERE. 

Tuesday, May 16, 8:30 am-11:30 am

• ULI Data Forum
  • Throughout an asset’s lifecycle, data enables the industry to work. But we all know the data is not standardized, it is messy, it is hard to collect, and the industry could run a lot more efficiently. Data is not easily transportable. Many organizations are developing bespoke solutions to solve the problem, but these solutions are not scalable. There’s a lot of room for improvement to achieve a higher level of productivity that other industries have achieved by standardizing data.The data forum will begin to identify these challenges and discover ways to turn these challenges into opportunities.
• ULI Equitable Development Forum
  • Affordability: Recognizing that the development industry has historically focused on increasing housing supply in its response to addressing the rising unaffordability, that alone is not enough.A human-centered approach to affordability would focus on delivering quality of life and complete communities that allow for anyone to age in place.The Equitable Development Forum will introduce three case communities from Toronto and another US city (TBD), where leaders have looked beyond the supply issue to measure success.

Wednesday, May 17, 8:30 am-11:30 am

• ULI PPP In Action Forum
• ULI Coastal Forum
  • The mission of the Coastal Forum is to convene, collect, and share best practices and emerging market trends in coastal real estate development and community resilience, focusing on strategies to protect and strengthen communities at risk due to sea level rise, storms, and other climate hazards through innovative infrastructure and real estate projects within coastal areas. The Coastal Forum seeks to provide an opportunity for members to meet and build a network with peers of different professional backgrounds involved in coastal development and/or resilience.
    • Offer a forum to share best practices for coastal development, resilience, and planning
    • Provide a targeted group to share and provide private sector input into new tools and resources
    • Provide an opportunity for leadership and expertise development in coastal development and resilience

    This spring’s theme is: achieving community resilience through promotion of innovative, equitable, and inclusive development along the waterfront.

*Some ULI Forums are by invitation-only. These are listed at the bottom of the schedule and you can visit their respective pages to express interest in attending or to apply!